Democracy

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Richard D. Kahlenberg
Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy (Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History)
In Woody Allen's 1973 film, Sleeper , a character wakes up in the future to learn that civilization was destroyed when "a man by the name of Albert Shanker got hold of a nuclear warhead." Shanker was condemned by many when he shut down the New York City school system in the bitter strikes of 1967 a...
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Political Protest No Kings In America Since 1776
Patriotic Pro-Democracy Politics Protest No Kings In America T-Shirt
Pro-democracy protest shirt for Political no kings protest, Independence Day, July Fourth, July 4th, Fourth of July. Make your feelings clear America should have no Kings. Patriotic, pro-constitution, pro-democracy. No Kings Since 1776. No Kings in the USA. Reject authoritarianism. Patriotic pro-USA...
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Joseph A Schumpeter
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy: Third Edition
Joseph Schumpeter's classic *Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy* explains the process of capitalism's "creative destruction" - a key principle in understanding the logic of globalization." - Thomas L. Friedman, *Foreign Policy* In this definitive third and final edition of his prophetic masterwor...
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Rob Reich
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot – Three Stanford Professors on Technology Ethics, Privacy, and Democracy
“Read this if you want to understand how to shape our technological future and reinvigorate democracy along the way.”—Reed Hastings, cofounder and CEO of Netflix "A triumph: an analysis of the critical challenges facing our digital society that is as accessible as it is sophisticated." — An...
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Jeff Manza
Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
5.4 million Americans--1 in every 40 voting-age adults--are denied the right to participate in democratic elections because of a past or current felony conviction. In several American states, 1 in 4 black men cannot vote due to a felony conviction. In a country that prides itself on universal suffra...
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Clayton D. Peoples
The Undermining of American Democracy: How Campaign Contributions Corrupt our System and Harm Us All
The public believes that politicians in the US favor special interests over their constituents and that our political institutions have become corrupt―and they are right. A growing body of evidence shows that special interests have disproportionate sway over policy via campaign contributions and l...
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Jack Greeson
The Spirit within us: A saga of two bold families who helped build a democracy
To understand the origins of American democracy is to understand the trials and triumphs of courageous American families and their ancestors. After thirty years of meticulous research into the lineages of two such families, Jack Greeson, Ph.D. presents a compelling narrative on how they laid the fou...
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Matt Stoller
Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (Must-Read American History)
“Every thinking American must read” ( The Washington Book Review ) this startling and “insightful” ( The New York Times ) look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism has transformed American politics, and business. Going back to our country’s founding, Americans once had a c...
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Russell Crandall
Gunboat Democracy: U.S. Interventions in the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Panama
In this balanced and thoughtprovoking study, Russell Crandall examines the American decision to intervene militarily in three key episodes in American foreign policy; the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Panama. Drawing upon previously classified intelligence sources and interviews with policymakers...
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David Henry Keller
The Kellers Of Hamilton Township: A Study In Democracy (1922)
The Kellers of Hamilton Township: A Study in Democracy is a non-fiction book written by David Henry Keller and published in 1922. This book is a detailed study of the Keller family, who were residents of Hamilton Township, Pennsylvania, during the early 20th century.The book provides a comprehensive...
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Jacqueline Mondros
Organizing for Power and Empowerment: The Fight for Democracy
Through entirely new interviews, Organizing for Power and Empowerment: The Fight for Democracy features the voices and experiences of more than forty organizers, telling the stories of twenty geographically and racially diverse progressive organizations. The authors highlight how organizations use...
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Seth Ashley
News Literacy and Democracy
News Literacy and Democracy invites readers to go beyond surface-level fact checking and to examine the structures, institutions, practices, and routines that comprise news media systems. This introductory text underscores the importance of news literacy to democratic life and advances an argument ...
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Nelson Lichtenstein
Industrial Democracy in America: The Ambiguous Promise (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
Industrial Democracy in America begins its close examination of what came to be known among collars of any color as "the labor problem" with the railroad strikes of the 1870s. The contributors cover the theory and practice of the American labor movement, the promise and demise of industrial jurispru...
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Israel Getzler
Kronstadt 1917–1921: The Fate of a Soviet Democracy (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Series Number 37)
This is the first major study of revolutionary Kronstadt to span the period from February 1917 to the uprising of March 1921. It focuses attention on Kronstadt's forgotten golden age, between March 1917 and July 1918, when Soviet power and democracy flourished there. Professor Getzler argues that th...
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Tomislav Sunic
Against Democracy and Equality: The European New Right
The first account of the European New Right to appear in English, now on it's third edition. Re-edited, with new forewords and including the 'Manifesto for a European Renaissance'. Against Democracy and Equality was the first book ever published in the English language on the European New Right, and...
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Jamestown Rediscovery
Church & State: The Archaeology of the Foundations of Democracy
Church and State: The Archaeology of the Foundations of Democracy summarizes archaeological investigations of Jamestown’s 1907 Memorial Church and historic 17th-century tower. The book recounts the team’s search for Jamestown’s 1617 Church, where Virginia’s first General Assembly was held in...
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Terry Tempest Williams
The Open Space of Democracy
Terry Tempest Williams presents a sharp-edged perspective on the ethics and politics of place, spiritual democracy, and the responsibilities of citizen engagement. By turns elegiac, inspiring, and passionate, The Open Space of Democracy offers a fresh perspective on the critical questions of our t...
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Guinier
The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy (The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures)
Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Addressing these issues is essential. Ignoring racial differences--race blindness--has failed. Focusing on individual achievem...
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Donald L. Wallace
Embracing Democracy: Hermann Broch, Politics and Exile, 1918 to 1951
Hermann Broch wrote two of the most significant novels of German modernism, The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil , which established his importance to German literature. His writings on democracy, mass delusion and internationalism are more obscure. Embracing Democracy examines the central ...
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Chris W. Bonneau
In Defense of Judicial Elections (Controversies in Electoral Democracy and Representation)
One of the most contentious issues in politics today is the propriety of electing judges. Ought judges be independent of democratic processes in obtaining and retaining their seats, or should they be subject to the approval of the electorate and the processes that accompany popular control? While th...
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